Jadah Carrera-Publicover

 Blog Journal Number 7

I viewed Fairview Elementary School's website and they had a list on all of their teachers on their teacher page. After looking a few different teacher's pages, I have found that the each teacher wrote a short paragraph about their background and years of teaching. They also listed different resources related to the grades that they teach for the parents and students to look at. For example, in the picture below it shows Miss Amanda Stief's teacher page. She included a paragraph of her teaching history, contact information,  and then resources for each of the subjects she teaches with assignments and announcements. 

Fairview Elementary School

As a teacher I plan to implement different uses of technology in my classroom to accomplish my own professional responsibilities. I plan to use sites like Canvas, Canva,  and Blogger to keep it simple to not overwhelm my young elementary school students. I think Canvas is an easy site to use to make connections with your students and to keep organized with assignments and grading. Canva is a great space for me to create newsletters and banners, and for my students to explore their own creative mind. As for Blogger, I think this site is a great space for students to share their thoughts and ideas with other classmates. I could also use blogger for typing lessons and assignments for my students as well. Overall, there are many different sites that I plan to use to help myself, but also my students. 

Personally, I did not like the Wiki platform, but it still got the job done. I thought it was cool how as a group we were able to collaborate without having to be together, but I did not like how it would lock whenever someone would edit. This made it kind of difficult to get the job done on your own timing. I personally felt that the platform could use some updating, as the graphics and edits seemed outdated and the platform was very slow. Although I wasn't a big fan of the Wiki platform, I think it was a great way to complete a group project. I probably wouldn't use this platform in my own classroom, but if I were to implement it I would use it to complete group assignments as well. 

Jadah Carrera-Publicover

Blog Journal Number 6

  Hello everyone! My initial experience with Diigo was very interesting because it is a software that I've never used before. I found this software to be very cool to use, as I think it is a great way to connect and spread information with others in a group. Finding different informative websites, like we did in class, and then sharing them to our group on Diigo was a great way to quickly spread different resources to one another. I honestly don't think I've used Diigo enough to find anything that I disliked about it yet. So far I believe it is a great tool to use, especially for teachers. 

As for blogging, I've really enjoyed writing down my thoughts about different learning topics each week. I also really enjoy looking at other classmates' blogs to see how they feel or what they learned each week.  I don't have any negative feelings towards blogging, I think this is also another way to make connections with others. Seeing other's thoughts towards the class material has been very interesting because everyone grasps the material differently and has different ideas. Overall, I've been enjoying blogging and seeing my classmates ideas.

A web tool 2.0 that I would like to implement in my classroom is Quizizz. Quizizz is a great tool for teachers to use to help quiz their students for practice. This software helps create interactive tools to help teachers. It allows you to make your own individual quizzes related to the material that you are teaching. Although it would require to use technology in the classroom, I think it would be a great way to get the students more involved with your class. 

Link for resource: Quizizz  

Jadah Carrera-Publicover

 Blog Journal Number 5

Hello Everyone! Prior to taking this class, I had no experience with using Twitter. Although Twitter is a common app used for people my age, it was never an app that I ever needed to use. Now that we've started using Twitter in class, I've learned that this app has many benefits to it. I've been interacting with people who are in the same class, people who attend Florida State, and people with similar interests and passions as me. This is a great way to find connections as a teacher for new tools and assistance. Being able to connect with others who have similar interests and passions, is a great way to learn new ideas from others. Twitter would be very beneficial for teachers to help get their students connect with each other, but also for the teacher to connect with other teachers. Every teacher presents new ideas on how to teach certain topics, so Twitter would be a great way to find connections. 

Digital divide is the gap between people who have access to technology and those who do not. This digital divide can affect student success in schools because it creates a divide within the students. Not all students are privileged enough to have technology at home. Because every child's home life is different not everyone has access to technology or help with technology. If a child goes home from school and has access to different forms of technology, and they have parents who understand technology, then they are typically going to be more successful when it comes to using technology. If roles were reversed and the child had no access to technology and had parents who could not help, then this student would be more likely to struggle in this topic. As a teacher I would be sure to be understanding of this gap. I would not require homework that can only be done online, as not every child has access to a computer or internet. I would also like to take more time in class to teach my students as much as I can about technology to help fulfill this gap. If I can help all my students learn and understand how to use a computer, they will be more likely to succeed in this topic for the future. 

Academic software is a generic phrase that refers to any type of computer software or online tools that are designed for educational purposes. There are multiple software tools that I would like to implement in my future 1st grade classroom. Some software tools that I would use would be Canva, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Blogger, etc. I would use Canva to create my own templates and newsletters. I would implement Microsoft Word to create my own assignments, and would also like to get my students to use this software for online work. Microsoft Excel will be used for attendance or online grading, to help stay organized. Lastly, I would also like to use Blogger within my classroom to help my students interact with each other and communicate their thoughts. 

Jadah Carrera-Publicover

 Blog Journal Number 4

Hello everyone! Sine I plan to teach first grade, I have chosen to look into the ELA Technology Standards for grade 1. The standard that I chose is LAFS.1.RI.2.5, which is focused on knowing and using different text features to locate different key information within the text. You can do this by including headers, footers, icons, images, glossaries, table of contents, etc. I would like to implement this standard in my classroom because technology can get confusing, so learning and knowing how to locate the information can be extremely helpful. I believe I am prepared to implement this standard, as I could create different templates, websites, books, etc. to practice these skills within the classroom.  There are many online tools like Canva, to help create these templates to teach. 

As a first grade teacher, there are many different subjects and topics that will be taught. After looking at the CPALMS Educator Toolkit for first grade, I found many resources available. One specific resource that I would like to implement to my classroom, would be the "Let's Talk About Money" resource under mathematics. This resource contains four different parts, but it is an interactive activity to help students understand the value of coins and dollars. This activity can be done through sorting coins, hundred charts, number lines, skip counting, etc. I found this resource interesting because it shows many different ways to teach one basic daily skill. I also liked this resource because it is very interactive, which I think would work best with teaching math to first graders. 

Internet searching is something that we do in our everyday lives. Teachers specifically need to be proficient at internet searching because they need to be able to teach students how to find constructive research online, as well as find their own resources for their classroom. The internet can be very frustrating to use when the results you are hoping for do not show up, so as a teacher it is important to learn how to use different search engines, and advanced searches, etc. From this week I think learning about the CPALMS Educator Toolkit will be the most helpful to my teaching. This internet source provided a bunch of resources for a variety of subjects and grades. It also provided activities and standards to follow while teaching. This internet source and the ELA Technology Standards, were both skills that I haven't learned about until this week. It was very interesting to see how much there is to help guide teachers on their journey.